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Collective Bargaining
Collective bargaining at various levels resulted in major agreements being reached with trade unions on both wage and employment
conditions in several countries. The principal agreements include:
Italy: Fiat S.p.A. and the signatory trade unions of the CCSL, together with Fiat Industrial S.p.A., reached an agreement to merge the
FASIFIAT and FASIQ supplementary healthcare plans for non-management employees into the new FASIF plan effective 1 January
2013. Under the agreement, the new fund guarantees free basic healthcare for all Fiat Group and Fiat Industrial Group employees,
including cardiovascular check-ups and Long Term Care (LTC) coverage where assisted care is required
France: company-level collective bargaining in 2012 resulted in pay increases in line with inflation
Serbia: for the Fiat Automobile Serbia d.o.o. plant in Kragujevac, an agreement was signed with trade unions in November which
established pay increases, as well as the Christmas bonus linked to the achievement of company targets and individual absenteeism
for employees covered by the agreement. The company and trade unions also agreed a mechanism to compensate for production
stoppages attributable to organizational factors
Canada: in September 2012 Chrysler Group reached an agreement with the National Automobile, Aerospace, Transportation and
General Workers Union of Canada (CAW) on a new four-year contract. Also, CpK Interior Products Inc. (a company owned by
Chrysler Canada Inc.) and the CAW union negotiated a new 4-year Collective Agreement for the CpK Guelph manufacturing facility
Mexico: Chrysler Group and the Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Industria Automotriz Integrada Similares y Conexos de
la Republica Mexicana successfully completed the annual bargaining process, reaching an agreement in advance of the May 9th
deadline
In 2012, the level of labor unrest at Fiat Group companies in Italy was significantly lower than previous years, both in terms of
the number of instances and the number of employees taking part, despite appearances based on the level of public attention given to
certain issues.
Outside Italy, the overall level of labor unrest was negligible with isolated incidents limited to individual plants.
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